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submitted 2 days ago • 603 comments

From WSJ tonight: “I’ll hook you up to a fucking polygraph!” Hegseth shouted at Adm. Christopher Grady, the then-acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Free link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

Omg. This makes so much sense.

submitted 7 days ago • 171 comments

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

submitted 17 days ago • 50 comments

me when Obama pops out telling people to get in the streets and universities to stop caving

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

I do think blanket opposition to free trade was kind of a luxury belief for a lot of political actors because it was so assumed that the pro-trade coalition was so strong we'd never get something like this. whoops.

submitted 23 days ago • 31 comments

I must not be the first person to bring this up But there has never been a more vindicated guy

submitted 23 days ago • 235 comments

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

submitted 24 days ago • 49 comments

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

"You watch as the US president stands in front of a podium ranting about egregiously large tariffs & how unfair the world is to the US." You bolt awake in California. You are not online. It is 1994. You are the director George Lucas, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This is well worth your time. One aspect that stuck with me is how much more assertive Congress used to be, and why it’s necessary for Congress to reclaim a lot of its power to rebalance the republic.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I give Eli Manning a truckload of shit but this is an excellent post

submitted 27 days ago • 53 comments

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 34 days ago • 367 comments

I wrote a longish piece about the recent abundance discourse and the tendency to treat every issue like an excuse to relitigate the 2016 Democratic primary resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-abunda...

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

submitted 38 days ago • 216 comments

My two main thoughts atm: 1) I think it’s a tough situation but Dem leadership has got it wrong 2) Anyone trying to tell you this is it, this is the last chance, this is the big vote on whether Trump and Musk get to do whatever they want etc is lying to you

submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

When I played rugby in college, I would get nervous about getting hurt before games. But then I'd carry the ball, I'd get that first hit, and I'd be fine. Adrenaline would kick in, I'd get back up and give as good as I got But before that first hit, I was scared to get hit. I wanted to avoid it.

submitted 46 days ago • 38 comments

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

submitted 54 days ago • 895 comments

I find many tech people insightful and cogent, and I also think that a lot of dumb, arrogant and destructive shit like DOGE comes out of that sphere, and I think the dividing line is that smart technologists really internalize that they are by necessity also sociologists, humans are the system.

submitted 54 days ago • 17 comments

I speak with ample experience of depression: but you need to be aware of the absolutely toxic form of confirmation bias depression gives you, where you subconsciously look for reasons to stay depressed. You need to be aware of this and check it hard. It's civic duty now.

submitted 61 days ago • 5 comments

This is quite a thing to find 18 paragraphs down in a story. wapo.st/4hW2xGI

submitted 69 days ago • 124 comments

i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!

submitted 87 days ago • 109 comments

incredible to me that all the p2025 shit is written with the understanding that the bureaucracy is a critical, essential force that has to be mastered to carry out your goals and one of their first fucking steps was to radicalize it against them in the most impotent and insulting way imaginable

submitted 88 days ago • 13 comments

Three headlines from the NYT: Trump is "in charge" and moving at a "breakneck" pace. His opponents, meanwhile, are "gasping in outrage." Not only is Trump powerful, but those who oppose his power are pitiful.

submitted 88 days ago • 21 comments

Every headline the last week is like “Trump moving at record speed to implement his agenda” Meanwhile it’s a farce of overreaching immediately and backpedaling piecemeal for days

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

not only was non-citizen voting common but the causal relationship between citizenship and voting was often reversed, that is, voting was how a non citizen demonstrated their commitment to the political community such that they could become citizens

submitted 90 days ago • 56 comments

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

submitted 99 days ago • 169 comments

submitted 101 days ago • 60 comments

“Why did it take so long for this reporter to write this story on horrific sexual abuse by a powerful person and/or entity” is a stupid fucking question and if you ask it I hope you feel thoroughly disgusted with yourself, like I did the time I went to a poetry slam trying to get laid.

submitted 104 days ago • 44 comments

Great piece from @davidallengreen.bsky.social about how to regulate the internet giants. Governments can do this, their biggest challenge today is the idea that they are powerless. The coming battle between social media and the state - on.ft.com/428YBhq via @FT

submitted 107 days ago • 4 comments

The Danish presence in Afg was fairly small (a battalion), but the DANBAT fought hard for years in a very tough district of Helmand—unlike some NATO nations with larger contingents that took on relatively quiet sectors in the west and north and had restrictive “national caveats.”

submitted 107 days ago • 15 comments

As an American who’s lived in London this is too accurate

submitted 135 days ago • 127 comments